Exhibition – Moustiques Domestiques demi-stock

In the early twentieth century, the progress of the industrial revolution gave rise to a new economic consideration in art: speculation. At that time, Marcel Duchamp, like the Dada and Surrealist movements of which he was a part, undertook a certain deconstruction of art, based on an ambitious paradox between economic and spiritual values. For Duchamp, a work of art was first and foremost an act for the mind rather than a value imposed by the art market: works subjected to a test of value, full of mind games that mocked and poked fun at the new marketing strategies of the period, mixing scandal and the relentless pursuit of novelty.

Our event draws its inspiration from literary cafés. Participants and audiences are invited to celebrate this anniversary: a venue as an intellectual, aesthetic and emotional space-time in motion, where round tables, artistic performances and convivial moments summon a few ghosts from the past to interrogate us about the present and its challenges... and to promote, once again, the Principality of Monaco as a laboratory for innovation and development in the arts!
 

Friday 09 May from 6.30pm
PREVIEW

> Charity raffle/lottery of artworks by Giovanni Casu, Luciano Chessa and Agnès Roux

> READY-MADE EXQUIS cocktail reception by the Office des Menus Plaisirs

Friday 16 May from 6.30pm
DUCHAMPIAN EVENING

subject to availability, booking advised

> READY-MADE EXQUIS cocktail reception by the Office des Menus Plaisirs

> SOAP FOAM RITUAL video and performance by Agnès Roux with Moa Ferreira, Margot Hermet Pallanca and Laurent Luigi

> Charity raffle/lottery to win artworks by Giovanni Casu, Luciano Chessa and Agnès Roux

> Friendly round table during which the artists will discuss this revolutionary work by Marcel Duchamp and Rrose Sélavy

Exhibition in resonance with the exhibition of a Monte-Carlo Bond by M. Duchamp, from 01 to 08 May in the Atrium at the Casino de Monte Carlo and the audio performance by Luciano CHESSA on 08 May.